Ironing device for shoes, &amp;c.



No. 762,052. PATENTED JUNE 7, 1904.

' A. L. HAYDEE.

IEONING DEVICE EOE SHOES, aw. APPLICATION FILED 0G'1'.16, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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UNTTED STATES llatented June '7, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

AMOS S. HAYDEN, OF AVON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO ELLEN F. HAYDEN, OF AVON, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 762,052, dated June 7, 1904. Application filed October 16 1903. Serial No. 177,248. (No model.)

To CLM w/tom t may concern:

Be it known that I. AMos S. HAYDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Avon, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachu setts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ironing Devices for Shoes, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an ironing device for shoes, &c.

It consists of apair of rotatable wheels having friction-producing surfaces and provided with means for forcing them toward each other during rotation, whereby an iron r like tool placed therebetween will be heated.

My present device is an im provement on that shown in United States Patent No. 737,926,

granted September 1, 1903, to William F.

Packard and myself. It was found in the practical use of that machine that it tended to force the iron outward, sov that considerable efort on the part of the operator was re-V` quired to secure sufficient contact. My present device overcomes this defect and provides for any desired amount of friction.

Figures 1 and 2 represent, respectively, longitudinal and cross-sections of my device, a few parts being shown for the sake of clearness in elevation.

It further consists of other novel features of construction. all as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

Similar numeralsof reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a standard having bearings 2 for a shaft 3, which may have an enlarged portion 4 and on which is mounted adriving-pulley 5. Mounted on the shaft 3 are two heads 6, the adjacent plane and parallel surfaces7 of which are preferably faced with disks 8, of leather or like material. Pressing against the hubs 9 of the heads 6 are thrust-springs 10, theouter ends of which bear against collars 11, adjustably held on the shaft 3 by set-screws 12.

Secured to the frame or standard 1 intermediate its"length are rests 13 14C. I have shown one of these as verticallyadjustable by means of a set-screw 15, playing in a slot 16 in the rest portion.

A tool 17 has fiat parallel sides 18 and oppositely-eXtending handles 19.

The operation is as follows: The heads being rotated at sufcient speed it is obvious that a burnishing or like tool .forced between them and. held in place on the rests 13 14 will be highly heated by frictional contact with the revolving disks 8. As both the disks 8 and the sides 18 of thetool are plane and parallel, there will of course be no tendency to throw out the tool. By means of the movable rest 13 the tool is radially adjustable between the bases of the heads, so that wear of the disks 8 may be kept even from center to periphery. If the rotation is in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 2, the tendency toward tangential movement of the tool will be restrained by the upwardly extending flange 20 on the rest 14. It is clear that the iron will be heated sufliciently-for the burnishing required and that it cannot be burned or roughened.`

Various changes may be made in the details of construction of my invention, and I do not, therefore, desire to be limited in each case to the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A tool-heating device comprising a pair of rotatable heads theadjacent faces of which are parallel and means for supporting a tool in frictional contact between said parallel faces.

2. A tool-heating device comprising a pair of rotatable heads, the adjacent faces of which are parallel, means for supporting a tool in frictional contact between said parallel faces and resilient means for forcing said heads toward each other.

3. A tool-heating device comprising a pair of rotatable heads the adjacent faces of which arc parallel and radially-adjustable means for are parallel, means for supporting a tool in supporting a tool in frictional contact befrictional contact between said parallel faces tween said parallel faces.

and means for resisting the tangential thrust AMOS S. HAYDEN. 5 of said heads on said tool. f W'itnesses: 4. A tool-heating device comprising a pair JAS. J. DOWD,

of rotatable heads the adjacent faces oi' which WM. E. MCCLINTOCK. 

